Automobile horn



Patented Dec. 28, 1926.

lsll'lE STTES 4NT OFFICE.

ATOMOBILE HORN.

Application filed April 8,

The object of my invention is to provide a structure, comprising automobile horn and supporting means therefor, which may be applied to any make or style of car and which is adapted to occupy a minimum oi' space. It is especially intended Ytor embodiment in an automobile horn which is operated purely pneumatically by the manual compression of a bulb on the end ot the horn, which bulb must, of necessity, be within convenient reach of the driver.

A preferred embodiment ot the invention is shown on the accompanying drawings, in vwhich-- Fig. 1 is a plan view of the horn and its supporting means.

Fig. 2 is a front view of the same on a reduced scale.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged section through a portion of Fig. l on line 3.

The horn shown is one having a plurality of sound amplifiers; that is, it is virtually a multiple horn. The invention is especially applicable to such horns, by reason otl their considerable over-all length and the difficulty or impossibility, in certain type-s of cars, of mounting them so that they extend directly forward Without overlapping the engine cover. The inventiom however, is applicable to single horns as well as to multiple horns.

Embracing two units of the multiple horn fr is a saddle Y) from which extends a post o having a surrounding flange (l. Sleeved on the post c is an internally threaded nut e having at one end an internal flange extending back of the flanged part (Z ot the post. A plate f] is provided with an integral exterior-ly threaded ring f adapted to slip over the outer end oli post c and to be screwed into engagement with nut e.

Plate o is provided near its opposite ends with holes through which may be inserted screws or bolts for 'fastening the plate to a support. Tais support is preferably that part oi the frame ai which extends under the windshield.

rlhe plate is so secured that the main body of the horn extends horizontally, and transversely of the car.I that is, parallel to the direction of longitudinal extension of the windshield.

Back of the main body of the horn is a contracted neel; L exteriorly threaded and adapted to be engaged by one threaded end of an arcuate tube z'. The other threaded 1925. Serial No. 21,534.

end o1 tube i is thread-ed on one end of a straight threaded tube 7c whose other end is expanded and carries the hand operable bulb 0. The threaded end oi'i tube c' carries nuts m', m and washers n, a. rlhe threaded end of tube/ extends through a hole that is formed in frame @c to receive it. One nut m and washer n is on the outside of the frame and the other nut m and washer n is on the inside of the trame, and by means of the nuts, the washers are clamped against ropposite sides of the trame.` Thereby the horn is provided with an auxiliary support that relieves the strain onv plate g.

The horn may be so positioned that the bulb is convenient to the lett hand of the driver, or it may extend in the reverse direction so that the bulb will be convenient to the right of the driver.

|The tubular part 7c oi" the horn may extend horizontally as shown; or the arcuate tubular joint c' may be turned on the main body of the horn as a pivot so that the bulb end of the horn may be positioned either above or below the level of the pivot. Therefore, in attaching the horn to the car, the bulb 0 may be located at any desired level within a reasonable range, and at any desired lateral position. y

Having now fully described my invention, what l claim and desire to protect by Letters Patent. is:

l. An automobile horn structure comprising a supporting trame, a horn coniprising a main member' including the sound amplifier, a rear member comprising a tube, an arcuate tubular joint uniting the tube and the main member7 and horn supporting means carried on the outside ot the trame and engaging the main member of the horn, said main member extending laterally along the outside 0i the trame, and said tube extending through and supported by the trame and extending in angular relation to the main member aud the frame.

2. An automobile horn .structure comprising a supporting frame. a liront horn inember comprising a sound amplifier extending in front of the frame, a rear horn member comprising a sound conveying tube extending through the trame in angular relation to the front horn member, a connecting tubular member between the Jfront and rear members of the horn, and means to independently support the front and rear members oi' the horn from the frame.

3. An automobile horn structure compris the saddle, the outer end of the post extendinY a laterally extending supporting frame, ing Within said ring, and a nut sleeved on 10 a horn comprising a main member ineludthe post and engaging said threaded ring. ing the sound amplifier extending in front In testimony of Which invention, I have of and substantially parallel to the support, hereunto set my hand, at Philadelphia,

a threaded ring, ineens by which the thread- Pennsylvania, on this 7 th day of April, 1925. ed ring is Carried by the supporting frame,

a` saddle supporting the amplifier, a post on v EDMOND H. BELBER. 

